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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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TSM for VE should automatically enable changed block tracking for eligible VMs when an incremental backup is attempted.

TSM for VE should automatically enable changed block tracking for eligible VMs when an incremental backup is attempted and chnged block tracking is not already enabled.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Is a defect

TSM for VE support Citrix

I am Lab Advocate of TSMC(Taiwan Semiconductor) who is the big customer in GCG, who used TSM more than 15 years, now customer is using Citrix for Desktop Cloud solution, but they have to still use traditional way to backup the data, they want to T...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Schedule options filed enhancement to store more virtual machine names

When using the new frontend for TSM for VE for creating a scheduled backup the frontend uses the options filed to store necessary parameters like: Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=DC_BERLIN -domain.vmfull="VM=vm_name1,vm...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Search option in TsmVmwareUI

When dealing with large number of VMs, finding a VM for restore/mount operation in the Datacenter list is extremely difficult and equal to finding a needle in a haystack. Search option would improve this interface significantly.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to configure the Time span of Recent Tasks

At the TSM Ve Web GUI, add the ability to configure the Time span of "Recent Tasks"
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VMware: Linux In-Guest Application Consistency

This enhancement request describes an important and very customer relevant improvement of the backup mechanisms of Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSMfVE) and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCMfVE). The existing support to gene...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Hyper-V Redirect restore

System: TSM for VEActor: Require additional feature Description:I am doing a Hyper-V Restore using the TSM BA Client.I can backup and restore fine. The problem is I cannot choose a location of where to direct the restore.(the ba client hyper v res...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

vmhost can not use IP-Addresses instead of FQDN

it is not possible to use the ip-address in a "backup vm vmhost=###.###.###.###" statement. The ESX-Server is registered with his ip in the vCenter Server interface.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Machines LAN Free Backup Limitations

Faster VMware virtual machine backup. Using LAN Free, you can only start backup for as many virtual machines as you have tape drives available. This puts a severe limitation on the number of virtual machines that you can simultaneously backup. Thi...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SnapProtect functionnality with TSM using VMware and LVM

SnapProtect is a new function from the nSeries. We need TSM to catalog the snapshots created by the nSeries and be able to restore file level directly from the snapshot. Other solution on the market is already available to offer this solution.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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